From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 6:58:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9059B37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 06:58:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-119a2km.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.10.150] helo=scee.dsj.net) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 1700oM-00052i-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 06:58:26 -0700 Received: from dsj by scee.dsj.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1700oW-0005Aj-00 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:58:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:58:36 -0400 From: "David S. Jackson" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: filling /var, tarring /var/db Message-ID: <20020423135836.GA10265@scee.dsj.net> Reply-To: "David S. Jackson" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On a recent make clean in /usr/ports, I happened to run out of space on my /var partition. I'm afraid I only had about 20mb allocated; I'll have to fix that in the future. But in the meantime, I was thinking I could simply tar and move /var/db over to /mnt/usr1 where I have tons of space (well, a few extra gigs, anyway) and symlink /mnt/usr1/db back to /var/db. Any red flags that you can think of? TIA. PS. Would running out of space in /var possibly cause a "Don't know how to make "clean" in /usr/ports/print/texinfo" error? -- David S. Jackson dsj@dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. -- Groucho Marx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message